Hacker News: laidoffamazon

New comment by laidoffamazon in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:12:50 +0000

But weren't they all made outside of Hollywood? Emeryville, around Europe and the UK, and then the UK for Toy Story 5, Odyssey, and Spiderman respectively?

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:46:19 +0000

Anything he wants!

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb"

laidoffamazon — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:15:40 +0000

IIRC the Alexa enabled voice remotes also used a similarly small model though perhaps not this small

New comment by laidoffamazon in "At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic"

laidoffamazon — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:20:10 +0000

I’ve always been fascinated (and angry) at people that just don’t have trouble passing or getting interviews

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

laidoffamazon — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:54:22 +0000

That’s amazing! I live next to their former office. Do you know which theater they rented out?

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

laidoffamazon — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:58:22 +0000

So how much did they have to donate to the MAGA PAC for this one?

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

laidoffamazon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:55:28 +0000

I was hoping for Pantheon too (I’m 90% sure Holstrom uses EMacs instead of Vim?)

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

laidoffamazon — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:06:16 +0000

I’ll be honest this seems low for what he’s been through.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

laidoffamazon — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:13:16 +0000

There's not going to be many non-Ivy+ graduates at these companies. I make Jane Street/HRT/etc new grad pay 8 years into my career

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

laidoffamazon — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:33:41 +0000

Cognitive elites are the MIT and Ivy+ grads that make up Jane Street like the speaker.

People like me aren’t getting $5m+ bonuses for being an SRE (I don’t have the pedigree to work at Anthropic either)

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

laidoffamazon — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:25:42 +0000

I'll never understand how these cognitive elites live. They're just a completely different kind of human than the rest of us.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert"

laidoffamazon — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:13:14 +0000

Can we squint and say the gut microbiome is kind of like this?

New comment by laidoffamazon in "MacBook Neo isn't innovation: It's Apple correcting a story it pushed for years"

laidoffamazon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:01:05 +0000

I’ll be honest, I had a hard time getting through the LLM writing

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

laidoffamazon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:52:08 +0000

Correct, as he should have

New comment by laidoffamazon in "More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:41:44 +0000

I went to a state school, worked at Amazon and didn’t get a 2300 on my SAT - I definitively am lower caste but the caste/class divergence isn’t well understood in culture I think.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "More Americans Are Breaking into the Upper Middle Class"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:32:37 +0000

As someone that thinks of myself as a low-caste, middle class American it's interesting seeing all of these people listed in the article making less than me

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:33:35 +0000

>btw 99% of MIT people are no different then the rest they just worked hard or paid hefty amounts

I don't think that's true. I didn't get into any elite schools unlike almost all of them.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

laidoffamazon — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:56:50 +0000

I genuinely think this is because the elites like the MIT dropouts that started this company think the rest of us observers are stupid.

They have a billboard with the copy "Compliance before you tell your parents you dropped out of MIT"

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:19:47 +0000

The problem may not be "intellectually interesting" to them at all, but building B2B SaaS does appeal to them from a lifestyle/prestige/pedigree perspective and will probably get them an exit to become a Venture investor even if they fail.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:47 +0000

Major red flag with this should have been that their expensive marketing predicated heavily on them being MIT dropouts instead of any expertise in the space